When a patient is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, the mission is to remove the tumor entirely. Leaving behind even a microscopic cluster of malignant cells can be the ...

Finding an effective treatment for osteosarcoma, the most common type of bone cancer in children and young adults, has puzzled medical researchers for 40 years. Now, a new study by researchers at Case ...

Myles Grimmett had a bone transplanted from his leg into his arm when he was 5 years old in a groundbreaking surgery that saved him from amputation Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

A new technique called "growing implant" is emerging as an important option in the treatment of bone cancer among children, allowing doctors to adjust the length of an affected limb as the child grows ...

Breakthroughs in a rare cancer treatment are helping a New York woman conquer an aggressive bone tumor. Doctors at Cohen Children's Medical Center say a state-of-the-art surgery for osteosarcoma means ...

Bone cancer develops when bone cells start to multiply rapidly and in an unusual manner. This results in break down of the bone. These bone cancer cells may also travel by blood to other oarts of the ...

A delicate and complex oncological and reconstructive surgery was successfully performed at Santobono Hospital in Naples on a 9-year-old boy affected by osteosarcoma of the right iliac wing, ...

A Virginia high school junior is facing months of chemotherapy and surgery after a sudden diagnosis of rare bone cancer. Colton Marquise, a 17-year-old junior at Fauquier High School, was diagnosed ...